Elizabeth Rylance
UW Honors Graduates
Elizabeth Rylance

Neuroscience
Designation: College Honors
Honors Grads 2019/2020
Proudest Moment: It's hard to pick! Traveling to Peru on a study abroad trip and doing field research in the Amazon rainforest was a huge one. Also, receiving the Mary Gates Research Scholarship for my work towards my Honors thesis, and finishing my thesis in general!
Thesis: Olfactory learning and memory in the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus
lizzyrylance@gmail.comHi! I'm Lizzy Rylance and I am graduating from the Neuroscience major at UW with College Honors. I am so grateful for the incredible opportunities and experiences I have had over the past four years, and especially grateful for all the people I have met along the way. I wouldn't be half the person I am today without the friends, mentors, faculty, coworkers, and classmates that I met throughout this journey.
As I move forward, I am more determined than ever to live fully, meaningfully, and with constant gratitude. I am planning on taking a gap year (or several) to travel, gain research experience, snowboard, backpack, read, listen, learn, and figure out how I can use my education and the opportunities that I've been given to contribute to a better future. Once I'm ready, I plan on pursuing graduate education somewhere in the realm of neuroscience, biology, ecology, psychology, or environmental studies.